Failures
Things I didn't win at
I had heard these words on my way home "things I had failed out this year", and as the driver argued with the Lagos agbero for "owoda", my mind went to places I believed I did not have a pass mark during the year.
Pictures of the free and paid trials of each event came playing one by one, and by the time we got to Maryland traffic, I was a bit ashamed. I looked at a billboard which said, "Many will admire it, and few will own it", and started thinking of the many things I had admired and still do not owe. I thought again deeply about the things I had failed, the ones I was too scared even to dare, and the ones I had just written their exams and awaiting the teachers' red or blue biro mark.
For someone who grew up a winner, firstborn, best in maths, solving life problems, giving advice, and cracking jokes just to make everyone happy. I have a feeble response to failure. By the time the bus parked at Ikeja underbridge, I had headphones on and was trying so hard to use music to distract my thoughts of failure.
When I got home and took my laptop (Akwa Ugo) to work again, I just knew that no matter the passing marks or number of failures I counted from yaba to Ikeja, there were some things I would never give up on, so I continued my work and stop counting my failures till next time.
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Things my failures have taught me
- It is better to have failed at something than regret not trying
- Failures taught me the best way to some stuff
- Failure reminded me that I wasn't Superman and I couldn't do everything
- Failure reminded me that they would always be better another time to retry
- Failure taught me that a pass mark is a pass mark and failure is a failure, no sitting on the fence
So I took note of the things I had failed at this year, and as I write, I'm retrying every damn thing except "adding weight" that one I don give up!
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